"Still ten buckets of corpses today?"

"It's the same old rule, if you make too much, you won't be able to finish it."

"Seriously, the corpse disposal pools in the north should be built bigger, or the purchase price of corpses should be set lower. They keep sending corpses here, and the disposal pools are not enough."

...

As the driver complained, Xia Chuhe and the bound corpse were scooped up with a shovel and dumped into the small door.

The small door led to a long slide, where the corpses in front and behind pushed Xia Chuhe down, leaving him with no foothold.

As you descend the slide, the stench becomes increasingly pungent.

Xia Chuhe was worried that there was a strange liquid at the end of the slide, so she had to find a place to grab onto first.

Xia Chuhe carried the body on his back, then grabbed onto a larger male corpse nearby, using all four limbs to support himself on top of it.

The slope of the slide gradually decreases, so we should be almost at the exit.

As his head emerged from the slide, Xia Chuhe saw his location, stepped on the corpse beneath his feet, and with a powerful push, jumped to the edge of the corpse-dissolving pool.

Contrary to her expectations, there was no liquid in the corpse-dissolving pool, only puddles of flesh slowly sinking.

Fresh corpses falling into the cadaver pool immediately sank into the pulpy mess. The bodies quickly shrank and took a long time to decompose; the clothes on the corpses also slowly rotted away.

Xia Chuhe looked around; there was no obvious exit, and even the walls were incredibly smooth. Even if there were an exit in these walls, she didn't have the ability to get out.

Xia Chuhe's gaze shifted to the corpse-dissolving pool. The flesh and mud slowly sank in. Where did the sank flesh go?

Xia Chuhe took out a hoe and stuck it into the minced meat.

When the hoe was taken out, it was intact, and there were no signs of corrosion on the wooden handle.

Xia Chuhe put the hoe down again and kept probing downwards until he reached about 30 centimeters, at which point he could not go any further.

Xia Chuhe waited a while, then took out the hoe again. A lot of rust appeared where the hoe touched the bottom.

It seems that the truly corrosive substance is at the very bottom.

Compared to the rate at which a corpse decomposes, iron seems to decompose more slowly.

Xia Chuhe threw three stone molds into the minced meat and used them to surround the edge of the corpse-dissolving pool, creating a makeshift barrier.

Xia Chuhe used an iron shovel to scoop out the minced meat from the isolation area, revealing a reddish mesh at the bottom.

It seems that this thing corroded the corpse, and the fleshy pulp flowed down through the gaps in the mesh.

Xia Chuhe tried to break the grid with an iron shovel, but it didn't work. She then set it on fire, and suddenly a beeping alarm sounded in the corpse-dissolving pool.

Xia Chuhe immediately stopped, but the alarm continued. Meanwhile, inside the corpse-dissolving pool…

A hole appeared in the baffle that had been burned.

As the alarm sounded, the fire raged fiercely in Xia Chuhe, burning a hole large enough for one person to pass through.

In a life-or-death situation, she no longer cared about the integrity of the body!

First, throw the body that Hu Xue wanted in to test its safety.

The body showed no signs of shrinking!

The alarm beeped louder and more urgent, and Xia Chuhe jumped into the cave without hesitation!

As his body fell, Xia Chuhe placed both hands on the stone mold and put it into the farm.

Xia Chuhe, who had fallen into the minced meat, picked up the corpse and hid in a corner.

Without the "barrier," the pool of corpses was filled with waves of fleshy pulp flowing downwards.

Outside the pool of corpses, hurried footsteps finally rang out.

Two people with something wrapped around their legs jumped into the corpse-dissolving pool and filled the hole that Xia Chuhe had burned.

"It's broken again! We need to hurry up and urge them. When will they be able to come up with fire-resistant material? How many times has this happened already!"

"There's nothing we can do. Some people carry flammable materials, and the people collecting the bodies don't have time to search them thoroughly."

"A bunch of pigs. The base has plenty of pigs. Send more over and make sure they do the work carefully."

"Too many people can easily lead to trouble. After all, the truth about the Corpse Dissolving Pool cannot be revealed to them."

"Ha, what's impossible? Without life-sustaining filters to transport the body's non-biological substances, what would they eat? Feed these useless pigs!"

"Okay, stop complaining. In a few days, someone will come to relieve us, and we can enjoy ourselves up there for a while."

As the two chatted, the hole was patched up, and Xia Chuhe was completely plunged into darkness.

However, at this moment, even the swirling gore and endless darkness couldn't match the power of those few words.

The truth, repairing the filter plate, the shrinkage of the corpse...

The human body cannot produce itself, eat, or...

Xia Chuhe's palms were burning.

When collecting the stone molds, her wrists and palms inevitably rubbed against the life-saving filter plate. Now, those areas were peeling in layers, as if they were about to rot.

This reminded Xia Chuhe of his high school days.

During high school, Xia Chuhe had the privilege of eating lunch and dinner out for the first time on a long-term basis.

The food in the school cafeteria was terrible, and Xia Chuhe was very picky about food. With the idea of ​​losing weight, she deliberately ate less.

Half a semester has passed, and I haven't lost a single pound of weight, but I've lost several layers of skin.

Xia Chuhe's palms were peeling extensively, and the skin on his fingertips was very thin. It would hurt if he held a pen for a long time or if he sweated a lot.

Fortunately, Xia Qingxue was attentive and took her to the hospital for a checkup in time. The doctor said it was a deficiency in vitamins and nutrients, and prescribed a bottle of multivitamins. She took them for a while before she got better.

At the same time, Xia Chuhe was deprived of his right to buy his own meals and was forced to accept lunch and dinner delivered by Xia Qingxue every day. He successfully gained ten pounds and grew ten centimeters in height within a year.

...

Now, the extent of Xia Chuhe's skin ulceration is like a magnified version of the consequences of malnutrition back then.

That so-called vitamin filter plate absorbed vitamins from her body, and possibly some other substances that the human body cannot produce on its own, such as certain essential amino acids and fatty acids, as well as minerals.

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